Eventshttps://www.ucl.ac.uk/labuk/events-anth/rssThe Laboratory for the Ethnography of the UK (LabUK) is a research platform for the study of contemporary British society and culture through an anthropological lens. Along with other post-industrial societies, Britain is an implicit reference point in much anthropological thinking, imagined primarily as an exemplar of ‘the West’.Man Yang2013-01-22T21:24:26Z

MN Srinivas Lecture 2015 - Christopher Pinney:
'Destroying the Negatives: M.N. Srinivas, “India’s Villages”, and
Photography'https://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/mn-srinivas-memorial-lecture-2015 RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mn-srinivas-lecture-2015-tickets-15418902352 AnthropologyMan Yang2015-02-24T11:46:31ZNash Lecture Theatre, King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS2015-03-19T18:15:00Z2015-03-19T19:30:00ZHow To Do the Ethnography of World-System Photographyhttps://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/adrian-gerbrands-lecture Professor Christopher Pinney is going to give the 4 th Adrian Gerbrands Lecture on Friday 28 th November 2014, at the National Museum of Ethnology, Steenstraat 1, 2300 AE Leiden.AnthropologyMan Yang2014-11-26T15:39:47ZNational Museum of Ethnology, Steenstraat 1, 2300 AE Leiden2014-11-28T17:00:00Z2014-11-28T19:00:00ZSpecial Preview screening and Q&A - On the bride’s side/Io sto con la sposahttps://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/on-the-brides-side Special Preview Screening: AnthropologyMan Yang2014-11-05T08:26:24ZArchaeology Lecture Theatre2014-11-19T18:30:00ZMongolia Returnhttps://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/mongolia-returnArtist, Hermione Spriggs
will speak about her current work from Mongolia, entitled: UURGA (irregular loop).AnthropologyMan Yang2014-10-20T14:15:46ZStaff Common Room, UCL Anthropology2014-10-22T10:00:00Z2014-10-22T11:00:00ZCIVILISATION &
ITS CRITIQUES - Horizons of History:
Framing Religion and Politics in India and Beyondhttps://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/horizons-of-history a workshop with Wendy Doniger on the politics of the longue durée
and other temporal frames. AnthropologyMan Yang2014-10-17T14:03:15ZUCL Anthropology, 14 Taviton Street, London, WC1H 0BW2014-11-14T14:00:00Z2014-11-14T17:00:00ZRisk, Embodiment and Health Technologieshttps://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/risk-embodiment-health-technologies A One day workshop hosted by Biosocialities, Health and Citizenship RRG
and the SMS network
AnthropologyMan Yang2014-06-17T13:52:00ZDaryll Forde Seminar Room, UCL Anthropology, 14 Taviton Street, London, WC1H 0BW2014-06-27T08:30:00ZActive Citizenship Panel Discussionhttps://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/active-citizenship-panel-discussionCome and hear our guest speakers and join the discussion: What does it mean to be an active Global Citizen? What is activism? What are the challenges that global activism
faces?AnthropologyMan Yang2014-06-03T13:05:13ZUniversity London Union (ULU), Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HY2014-06-05T17:30:00Z2014-06-05T20:00:00ZSpecial Film Showing and Discussionwith Filmmaker Zeynep Gürselhttps://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/coffee-futures Wednesday 28 May 2014, 6:30pm A.V. Hill
Lecture Theatre, UCL (131 Medical
Sciences) AnthropologyMan Yang2014-05-22T10:56:03ZA V Hill Lecture Theatre, UCL (131 Medical Sciences), Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT2014-05-28T17:30:00ZHuman Co-operation at UCLhttps://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/human-co-operationA meeting, convened by Ruth Mace , UCL Anthropology, to
present and discuss work on a range of approaches to understanding proximate
determinants and ultimate evolutionary causes human co-operation (broadly
defined). Talks include empirical, experimental and theoretical work on topics
ranging from parochial altruism, punishment, prosociality and kinship and its
role in promoting human co-operation. Speakers include those working at UCL,
visitors, and collaborators, from anthropology, biology, computer science and
other disciplines.AnthropologyadminMan Yang2013-08-23T11:09:48ZArchaeology Lecture Theatre2013-09-17T09:00:00Z2013-09-17T16:00:00ZTaster Day at UCL Anthropologyhttps://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/taster-day-0913The Department of Anthropology at UCL invites you to a day of
exploring anthropology at UCL on Friday 13 September 2013 . AnthropologyadminMan Yang2013-07-17T14:08:49ZThe Daryll Forde Seminar Room, 14 Taviton Street, London WC1H 0BW2013-09-13T08:30:00Z2013-09-13T15:30:00ZAnthropological Perspectives on the Crisis in Southern Europehttps://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/crisis-workshopThe workshop provides an arena for comparative discussion on the impact of socioeconomic crisis in southern Europe (Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain). Contributors will consider issues of historical consciousness, temporality, social movements, suffering and material poverty in the context of eurozone crisis and fiscal austerity.AnthropologyadminMan Yang2013-06-14T15:18:44Z2013-06-27T23:00:00ZWe are plurally rational and inherently relational: causes, corroborations and consequenceshttps://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/mary-douglas-seminar-2013 for researchers interested in developing and applying the legacy of the late Professor Dame Mary Douglas AnthropologyadminMan Yang2013-05-29T21:36:30ZRoom 101, International Hall, Lansdown Terrace, London, WC1N 1AS2013-05-30T23:00:00ZUCL Global Citizenship Programmehttps://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/global-citizenshipAnthropologyadminMan Yang2013-05-22T09:55:14Z2013-05-27T23:00:00Z2013-06-06T23:00:00ZTravel, Imagination and Experiencehttps://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/travel-imagination-and-experienceA discussion on the pleasures of armchair anthropology and the suffering of travellers with AnthropologyadminMan Yang2013-04-25T11:19:38ZDaryll Forde Seminar Room, 14 Taviton Street, London WC1H 0BW2013-05-01T16:00:00Z2013-05-01T18:00:00ZAsian Philosophical Encountershttps://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/apeThis workshop hopes to bring together a range of themes, including ideas of sameness and difference, temporality, comparison, and cosmology, drawing on philosophical and religious texts from Chinese, Japanese, and inner Asian traditions to inform anthropological perspectives. In particular, we are interested in discussing and exploring how and to what extent ideas from these traditions can help problematize ethnographic concerns with cross-cultural translation. AnthropologyadminMan Yang2013-04-24T09:25:12ZDaryll Forde Seminar Room, 14 Taviton Street, London WC1H 0BW2013-04-29T08:30:00Z2013-04-29T17:00:00ZMichael Stewart at the UCL Festival of the Artshttps://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/art-festivalMichael Stewart (UCL Anthropology and founder of Open City Docs) will introduce Chronique d'un Été, a
film by Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin 92' as part of the UCL Festival of
the Arts on 7 May.AnthropologyadminMan Yang2013-04-23T12:56:15ZA V Hill Lecture Theatre, 131, UCL2013-05-07T17:30:00Z2013-05-07T20:30:00ZPostgraduate Open Dayhttps://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/Postgraduate_Open_Day_Jun_2013The
Department of Anthropology invites all prospective candidates to the
Postgraduate Open Day on Wednesday, 12th
June (from 1.15pm onwards).AnthropologyadminMan Yang2013-04-19T09:31:09Z2013-06-12T12:15:00ZEconomic and Political Transformations in Inner Asiahttps://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/inner-asia-workshop The workshop will address
processes of transformation in the Inner Asian cultural region, and
explore themes such as shamanic economies, political histories, and routes
and frontiers. AnthropologyadminMan Yang2013-03-21T15:58:50Z2013-03-25T10:00:00Z2013-03-25T17:00:00ZThe Bullshitologist: Anthropology and Lieshttps://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/anthropology_and_lies The final event organised by Anthropology Society this term - Wednesday 13th March 4-6pm - Anthropology Common Room AnthropologyadminMan Yang2013-03-08T16:59:46Z2013-03-13T16:00:00ZTHE
FIFTH GASHAKA FIELD DAYhttps://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/gashaka-field-day-mar-2013Presentations by a multi-national network of
researchers and conservationists working in West Africa and in particular at
Nigeria's Gashaka Gumti National Park - one of the region's premier
wildernesses. Of special interest to students who contemplate to conduct their
own fieldwork.AnthropologyadminMan Yang2013-02-25T12:13:42Z2013-03-02T10:00:00ZBeyond Humanism: where do we take anthropology?https://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/Beyond_Humanism The second event organised by Anthropology Society this term - Wednesday 21st November 4-6pm - Anthropology Common Room AnthropologyadminMan Yang2012-11-12T14:30:50Z2012-11-21T16:00:00Z2012-11-21T18:00:00ZETHNOGRAPHIC TERMINALIA 2012: SAN FRANCISCOhttps://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/ethnographic-terminalia-2012 Audible observatories are points of sensory convergence. They are nodes where worlds perceived through the senses intersect and begin the labor of transforming independent events into knowable and meaningful claims. They speak and they are spoken to. AnthropologyadminMan Yang2012-11-02T15:07:57ZSan Francisco2012-11-15T00:00:00Z2012-11-17T00:00:00ZThe Hunter-Gatherer Anthropologist: Hunting the Cosmos and Gathering Datahttps://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/hunter-gatherer The first event organised by Anthropology Society this term - Wednesday 24th October 4-6pm - Anthropology Common Room AnthropologyadminMan Yang2012-10-15T13:23:19Z2012-10-24T15:00:00Z2012-10-24T17:00:00ZCancer Cultureshttps://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/cancer_cultures_eventThis two day event will bring together academics and
postgraduate research students from across the social sciences to examine
the diverse experiences and cultural or social engagement with the
illness and disease of cancer. It will explore the varied dimensions of
‘cancer cultures’ as they are constituted at the level of individual
experience, family, community and both within or across different national
contexts.AnthropologyadminMan Yang2012-10-11T21:35:10ZUCL Anthropology, 14 Taviton Street, London, WC1H 0BW2012-11-06T17:00:00Z2012-11-07T17:00:00ZPacific Islands Research Network - Occasional Lectures Term 1 2012https://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/Pacific_Islands_Research_NetworkThe Pacific Islands Research Network (PIRN) is very pleased to announce 2 forthcoming lectures in the PIRN (UCL) Occasional Lecture Series.AnthropologyadminMan Yang2012-09-24T11:39:47ZRoom 209, Institute of Archaeology, UCL2012-10-04T16:30:00Z